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 CHAPTER IV

URNING from a particular region, where, because of the close proximity of licks and feeding-grounds, the buffalo made local roads, it becomes of interest to look at the country at large and note the great continental routes.

For an animal credited with but little instinct, the buffalo found the paths of least resistance with remarkable accuracy.

Undoubtedly the migrations of the buffalo caused the opening of the great overland trails upon which the first white men came